A Critical Decision Is Just Days Away

By Mike Scinto

Appearing in Kettering-Oakwood Times-Times Community Newspapers

It’s time for all of us to make a decision that will shape the lives of our children and grandchildren. The choices you make will affect the value of your home, your investments, your job, your health and the lifestyle to which you have become accustomed; a lifestyle that is being challenged by a socialistic team in Washington that wants to rewrite the Constitution, or sidestep it altogether. When you boil it down, it’s a choice between turning your money over to Big Brother to make sure that it’s distributed “properly”, or keeping your hard-earned dollars and deciding for yourself where and how that money should be spent, saved or shared.

As a result of Obamacare, and a stimulus package that was neither needed nor used effectively, our future as a nation has been put into hock. We are borrowing and printing money like it’s going out of style; and actually it is. The dollar is not viewed globally as the powerful currency it was in past generations.

If you cut through all the political rhetoric, quite simply we are going about it in totally the wrong way. You establish lasting jobs and create a flourishing economy by keeping money in the hands of those who have a track record of business success. You don’t penalize those individuals and corporations by overtaxing them just so the government can hand the money out to individuals, who quite simply can’t, or won’t, have the initiative to make it grow. It’s tantamount to planting seeds in a well-tilled, fertilized soil versus casting the seeds out in a weedy field. Some plants will grow in that field for a short season, but the well-groomed field will likely produce a harvest that will feed many. I have never been hired by, or employed by a middle class individual. My bosses/owners have always had plenty of capital to allow the operation to grow and flourish.

Before I get emails from folks who read into that statement that I am somehow putting down the poor or those who don’t have huge bankrolls, I am clearly not doing that. There are individuals with the skills and wherewithal to lead, and others are good followers. Each have their own distinct rolls, neither being undesirable, but those who lead need the recourses with which to lead effectively, for the greater benefit of all.

We in Ohio, and more specifically the greater Dayton area, are literally Ground Zero for this upcoming decision. As goes Ohio so goes the nation. Tuesday is Election Day. While this election is considered a mid-term election, I believe it is every bit as vital to our viability as any Presidential year. Your choices are very straight forward as well. We can continue with double digit unemployment, selling our economy to the Chinese and taking away individual, constitutionally guaranteed rights or we can vote Republican and, hold the feet of those elected to the fire and watch this nation achieve its status as the greatest nation on the planet. The choice is yours; make it a good one!